Author: Hansjörg Back
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New vehicle profiles for Africa and Asia
The properties of a vehicle, such as height or weight, are stored in a profile. Up to now we offer predefined profiles for Europe, America and Australia as a simple entry for all routing-related services.
With the new version of the PTV Developer Data API V1.2.0 we added vehicle profiles for the IMEA region.…
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Sometimes length matters ;-)
Usually a route is optimized for travel time. The result is a fast route a real driver would follow accepting a longer distance, if necessary. But there are use cases where you want to optimize a route for distance, for example in case of billing purposes based on distance.…
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Route violated! But where?
When there is no valid route for your vehicle between two waypoints possible at all, the route is nevertheless calculated and marked as violated. This is typically the case for prohibited areas around waypoints, which have to be entered or exited anyway.…
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Traffic events
Do you remember the traffic delay introduced in one of the last versions of the PTV Developer Routing API? For the delay we compare the travel time with and without live traffic on the same route (see this blog post).
In the new version of the PTV Developer Routing API V1.11.0 the request parameter ‘TRAFFIC_EVENTS’ provides traffic events chronologically along the route in the event list, together with all other events like waypoints, maneuvers or toll (see this concept).…
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Guided navigation
With guided navigation you have the possibility to use a calculated route from PTV Developer in our truck app PTV Navigator. For this we offer in the new version of the PTV Developer Routing API V1.11.0 the request parameter ‘GUIDED_NAVIGATION’ to get the calculated route in an additional format easy to import in PTV Navigator.…
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Tutorials on GitHub
As you know we provide more and more tutorials to demonstrate how easy it is to build applications with PTV Developer. By the way, two new ones How to generate clients and Access APIs with Excel are recently published.
Besides a detailed step description most of the tutorials offer a sample application demonstrating the final result immediately (see button “Try it!”).…